by Alma Maria Rinasz If you are planning on visiting Mexico City and have a free morning, why not give Museo Soumaya, Plaza Carso a try? On Saturday, August 24th, after a short ride from the art deco inspired Colonia Condesa, (to read an architect's take on art deco in La Condesa, read Jim Johnston's blog here) I stood for the first time in front of Museo Soumaya, Plaza Carso in the heart of Polanco. Among the noise, traffic and movement so typical of Mexico City, this windowless, silver…

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Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. (Breda zwischen1525 und 1530 - Brüssel 1569) Der bethlehemitische Kindermord (1565/7) The British Royal Collection, London

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca 1525-1569), The Peasant Wedding, ca 1567, oil on wood, 114 x 164 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The Peasant Wedding is one of Bruegel’s scenes he enjoyed painting in different aspects of peasant life. The wedding scene shows the bride in front of the green textile wall-hanging, with a paper-crown hung above her head. She is also wearing a crown on her head, and she is sitting passively, not participating in the eating or drinking taking place around her…

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Haymaking (June and July). Original Title: Hooien. Date: 1565. Style: Northern Renaissance. Period: Brussels Period (1563-1569). Series: Twelve Months. Genre: genre painting. Media: oil, panel. Location: Lobkowicz Palace, Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic. Dimensions: 161 x 117 cm.

Pieter Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569), “the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting” and “a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting.”(Wikipedia) | The Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565. Oil on oak wood. 117 x 159 cm. Style: Northern Renaissance. Period: Brussels Period (1563-1569). Series: Months of the Year. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

The legendary medieval bandit Peter Niers would go down in history as one of Germany's most reviled criminals, raping and pillaging his ...

New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master’s works, revealing some macabre details.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Dutch Proverbs, detail, 1559 :Der blaue Mantel (Bruegel).